Start with what the Chery Arrizo 5 is: a 4-door saloon with 1.5 L E4G15C I4, built from 2016, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Lowie Vermeersch of Granstudio.
The background
The Chery Arrizo 5 (Chinese: 艾瑞泽5) is a compact sedan produced by Chery. The Chery Arrizo 5 received a name change to Chery Arrizo EX from 2019 to 2020 and the name was changed back to Chery Arrizo 5. The Arrizo 5 also spawned a more upmarket model based on the same platform called the Arrizo 6 or Arrizo GX that debuted during the 2018 Beijing Auto Show, with the model name being changed again to Arrizo 5 Plus after the facelift in 2021.
The engineering
The engine is 1.5 L E4G15C I4; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Drive goes through a 5-speed manual / 9-speed CVT. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2670 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the Chery line-up the Chery Arrizo 5 has a clear place: it replaced the Chery E5; it handed the line to the Cowin Xuandu (Cowin E5); the factory was Wuhu City. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Chevrolet Bolt, the Tesla Model 3, the Ferrari 488. Its Chery stablemates include the Chery Arrizo 5 GT and the Chery A1.